Improvement in vegetable and fruit slicers



J. B. H 0 W AR D.

VEGETABLE AND FRUIT SLICERS.

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UNITED STATES JEROME B. HOWARD, OF' WOONSOCKET, RHODE ISLAND.

IMPROVEMENT IN VEGETABLE AND FRUIT SLICERS.

Specifieation forming part of Letters Patent No. l93,959, dated August7, 1877; application filed May 526, 1877.

' To all whom 'tt may concew Be it known that I, JEROME B. HOWARD, 'ofWoonsocket, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, haveinvented a new and valuable Improvement in Apple Corers and Slicers and'I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription of the Construction and operation of the same, referencebeing had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification,and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

' Figure l of the drawings is a representation of a longitudinalvertical sectional view of my apple corer and slieer. Fig. 2 is atransverse vertical sectional view, and Fig. 3 is a horizontal sectionalView of the same.

The nature of my nvention consists in the construction and arrangementof a machine for coring and slieing apples, as will be hereinafter morefully set forth.

The annexed drawing, to which reference is made, fully illustrates myinvention.

A represents a box of any suitable dimensions, in the top of which is asquare opening provided with aseries of knives, a a, diverging radiallyor otherwise from a central tube, B. The upper edge of this tube issharpened, and forms the corer, and its lower endis continued in aninclined or curved manner out at the back of the box A, forming thespout G. The inner edges of the knives a are even or flush with the edgeof the corer B, while the edges of said knives are made slightly eonvex,so that their outer ends will be lower than the inner ends and thecorer.

On top of the box A is Secured a standard, D, providrd with two parallelarms, D' D extending over the corer, and the outer ends of said armst'orming eyes or guides for the passage of a vertical rod, E, to thelower end of which the' plunger Gr is Secured. In the under face of thisplunger is a central projection, d, of suitable size to enter the corerB, and from the center of said projection extends a pin or spur, c.

The plunger is operated by means of a lever, H, which is slotted at hfor. the rod E to pass through, and said rod pivoted in this i slot. Theinner end of the lever El is pointed and passed through a slotted frame,D projeeting from the standard D, between and in opposite direction fromthe arms D the lever turning in said frame as its fulcrum, and yetmoving suficiently back and forth to admit of the plunger and its rodnoving vertically up and down Without binding in its guides.

When the plunger is raised, the apple, having been previously peeled, isplaced on the knives and eorer. The plunger then being brought down, thespur e first enters the apple to hold it steady, and as the plungercontinues to descend it forces the apple down, which is then cored andslced, the pieces falling down between the knives into the box, whilethe core goes down into the oorer-tube B, and is pressed below the upperedge' thereof by the projection d on the plunger.

When the next apple is cored and slieed in the same manner, the firstcore is forced down through the spout 0 and disehar'ged at the back ofthe box.

The front of the box A is partially open, as at A ,so as to see theamount in the box. The remainder of the front is formed of a slide, Awhiehis tobe removed for empty'- ing the box.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The box A, provided with the front opening A slide A and knives a a,having convex edges, in combination with the plunger Gr, having theprojection d and spur e, corer B, and inciined spout, substantially asdescribed, and for the purpose set forth.

2. The standard D, with arms D D and frame D in combination with theplungerrod E and lever H, substantially as and for the purposes -hereinset forth.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my namein the presence ot' two witnesses.

JEROME B. HOWARD.

Witnesses:

GEORGE A. WILBU F. L. HOWARD.

